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Apex Legends players are primed and ready to roll when Season 1: Wild Frontier launches at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern today. The season will last approximately three months and will bring the first-ever Battle Pass in to the game alongside Octane, a new Legend. Octane will be available for all players. The Basic Battle Pass is free to all players, but players can also purchase the Standard Battle Pass that allows them to earn an additional 100 rewards. As with most battle pass systems, players will earn experience by playing the game. As players hit benchmark levels, they will unlock new rewards. Free Battle Pass players will be able to earn: skins Apex Packs Wild Frontier stat trackers Standard Battle Pass players will earn more of the above. Read more on the Apex Legends site. … [Read more...] about Apex Legends to Launch Season 1: Wild Frontier with the Battle Pass & a New Legend

Unconfirmed rumors are swirling that Electronic Arts paid Tyler "Ninja" Blevins a million dollars to stream Apex Legends and tweet about it to his thirteen million followers within the first 24-hours after the game was announced. Other "influencers" were also paid to stream Apex Legends, including Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek, though the details of his deal with EA remain unknown. The standard caveat in this is that neither EA nor Blevins have commented on the rumors. According to Reuters: The amount underlines the increasingly cut-throat fight for dominance of the free-to-play battle royale genre that, through Epic Games' global smash hit "Fortnite", has pushed major publishers like Electronic Arts to change how they do business. "This was a really well coordinated poaching of the top influencers the likes of which has not been seen so far in esports," said Kevin Knocke, VP of ReKTGlobal, suggesting that EA had also roped in streamers better-known for playing other blockbusters like … [Read more...] about Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins Reportedly Paid $1M by EA to Stream Apex Legends

In a new post on the Apex Legends Reddit, Community Manager Jay Frechette has revealed that over 355K cheaters have been banned since the game opened using "Easy-Anti-Cheat". While this is impressive in and of itself, Frechette also said that it is only the beginning. "We are working on improvements to combat cheaters," Frechette wrote. To do so, devs are working "directly with experts, both within and outside EA" as well as prepping a report feature for PC players. In addition to the anti-cheat wars, Respawn is also working on: work is underway to stop players from spamming during character select but devs are keeping the strategy "close to the chest" for the time being AMD devs will be at the studio next week to work with Respawn on improved stability and performance and to stop crashes. A similar visit happened recently with devs from Nvidia while some in the community have asked for a reconnect feature, it is unlikely one will be coming the team is tracking down slow server … [Read more...] about With 355k Apex Legends Cheaters Banned Already, Apex Legends Devs Say They’ve Just Begun

Vince Zampella sent out a new milestone Twitter post this morning when he announced that Apex Legends had hit another milestone. Over 50M unique players worldwide have played the game in under 30 days. To celebrate, the Apex Legends team sent out a one minute plus video. "You pinged, you slid, you got in fights with care packages. Apex Legends just hit 50 million players - check out all the amazing things that have happened in Apex Arena and thank you for being part of the fun!" Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale game on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Origin for PC. … [Read more...] about Apex Legends Hits Another Milestone with 50M Players in Under 30 Days

The alarm has sounded, the light has changed from red to green and you are standing on the drop ramp. Your squad gets the “jump!” command and you go all out with rocket boosters forcing you to the ground more quickly than a freefall. You touch down on the landing platform and begin to scour for weapons, all the while enemy squads are doing the same. This is our review for Apex Legends. advertisement From Developer Respawn Entertainment and Publisher Electronic Arts comes the new evolution of the Battle Royale genre in Apex Legends. Apex is a free to play battle royale game that launched with very little warning, but oh my goodness when it did. Since the game launched, it has taken its place upon the top of the twitch leaderboards as the most viewed game for several weeks now. It is crushing Fortnite’s milestones with no signs of slowing. Let’s not forget that this is in the Titanfall universe, and you can definitely tell it is.The combat in Apex … [Read more...] about Apex Legends Review